The Victorian Archbishops of Canterbury
Blewbury, Oxfordshire: The Rocket Press, 1991. Limited edition. Quarto (10 5/8 inches tall), original purple cloth, printed paper labels to spine and front board, charcoal endpapers, uncut. Fine. Item #1722
"PEOPLE CONFOUND THE RIGHT OF THE INDIVIDUAL, WHICH IS TO BE FREE, WITH THE DUTY OF INSTITUTION, WHICH IS TO BE SOMETHING"
Limited edition of The Victorian Archbishops of Canterbury, based on a lecture delivered on Founder's Day at St. Deiniol's Library in July 1977. Illustrated with the Lambeth Portraits, separated printed and tipped to the page, of six of the Archbishops of Canterbury.
The Rev. Dr. Alan M.G. Stephenson (the father of the printer) was a major contributor to the study of modern Anglican history. Beginning with the June 1837 death of King William IV, Stephenson's remarks profile the lives and times of William Howley (1828-1848), John Bird Sumner (1848-1862), Charles Thomas Longley (1862-1868), Archibald Campbell Tait (1868-1882), Edward White Benson (1883-1896), and Frederick Temple (1896-1902). The text of the address, supplemented with endnotes, is illustrated with six black-and-white portraits (reproduced by permission of His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury). Published posthumously with brief comments by Robert Runcie, the retired Archbishop of Canterbury ("Robert Cantuar / November 1988"). Runcie mentions the "pressures" on the archbishops but concludes "it was the vision and diligence of those nineteenth-century archbishops, here so vividly and skillfully depicted, which has done so much to develop the Anglican Communion in the present-day." One of only 525 numbered copies printed on Zerkall mould-made paper by Jonathan Stephenson at the Rocket Press.
Price: $50.00